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Palmer Freeman Luckey is the original founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift, a consumer virtual reality head-mounted display.〔〔 == Early life == Luckey was born and raised in Long Beach, California,〔 and grew up with three younger sisters, a mother, and a father who worked at a car dealership. As a child he was homeschooled by his mother, took sailing lessons,〔 and had an interest in electronics.〔〔 He took community college courses at Golden West College and Long Beach City College〔 beginning at the age of 14 or 15, and started at California State University, Long Beach〔 in 2010 as a journalism major.〔 He also wrote and served as the online editor for one of the university's student-run newspapers, ''Daily 49er''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Daily 49er : Staff )〕 From ages 11 to 16, he experimented with a variety of high-voltage electronics projects including coil guns, Tesla coils, and lasers.〔 He built a PC costing tens of thousands of U.S. dollars with an elaborate six-monitor setup. He had an intense interest in virtual reality (VR), and built an extensive private collection of over 50 different head-mounted displays, often purchased at auction for a fraction of their original cost.〔〔〔 Headsets in his collection include the Vuzix iWear VR920, eMagin Z800 3DVisor,〔 Fakespace Push, Visionics LVES, and a heavily modified Sony HMZ-T1.〔 To fund these projects, he earned at least US$36,000 by fixing and reselling damaged iPhones,〔 and was also a sailing coach and did boat repair.〔 In 2009, he founded ModRetro Forums, a website for discussing modifications to old hardware devices such as game consoles and PCs.〔 During his study at California State, he worked as an engineer at the Mixed Reality Lab (MxR)〔(Mixed Reality Lab (MxR) )〕 at the Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) at the University of Southern California as part of a design team for cost-effective virtual reality.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Palmer Luckey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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